Bangkok
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The Met creates enjoyable tropical living conditions at extremely high densities. Located between two train stations, the development permits a higher use of existing infrastructure.
Featured Buildings Involving WOHA Architects

Singapore
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Winning CTBUH awards in 2019 for Best Tall Mixed-use Building and Single Site Urban Habitat, this building integrates housing, a medical center, and a community plaza and park.
Featured Buildings Involving WOHA Architects

The Pano’s unique environment is inspired by the dramatic landscape of Thailand, where the form of the development takes on a poetic abstraction of nature.

About WOHA Architects

WOHA Architects was founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994. WOHA’s earliest projects comprised a series of private houses and the Church of St Mary of the Angels in Singapore, which were well-publicized and received many awards.

WOHA demonstrate a commitment to the implementation of sustainable yet innovative architecture, and within each project, they conceptualize all aspects of the architectural process: master planning, formal architecture, interior design, landscaping, lighting and furniture design.

As an indication of WOHA’s versatility and growing global recognition, the practice won two titles in two consecutive years (in four separate categories) at the 2009 and 2010 World Architecture Festival. The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, China, India, Indonesia and Thailand.

CTBUH Resources Involving WOHA Architects

Award Winners & Award of Excellence Recipients

The CTBUH Awards recognize projects and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability at the highest and broadest level.

A Living Tower in the Urban Tropics
31 May 2018 –
Presentation at CTBUH 2018 Chicago Tall + Urban Conference;
Wanling Lee, Far East Organization; Hong Wei Phua, WOHA Architects
A tower of green and red in the heart of Singapore’s dense Central Business District, the Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land-use intensification for the urban tropics. This tropical “living tower” incorporates plants into its red permeable…

Newton Suites and Other Endeavors: High-Rise and the Organic Realm
23 Oct 2009 –
Presentation at CTBUH 2009 Chicago Conference;
Mun Summ Wong, WOHA
As many projects struggle to justify the economic implications of ‘going green’ in the eyes of many developers, still others seem loaded with sustainable technologies that, in many cases, become the dominant aesthetic appearance. Increasingly,…

Papers/Research

Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore: A Tall Prototype for the Tropics
Jul 2018 –
CTBUH Journal 2018 Issue III; Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Hong Wei Phua, WOHA Architects
Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land use intensification in the tropics. Unlike the sleek and sealed skyscrapers that evolved in the temperate West, this tropical “living tower” is designed to soften the hardness of the city and to reintroduce…

Humanizing the Giants
17 Oct 2016 –
Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; Swinal Samant, National University of Singapore
The rise in sustainable skyscrapers and large-scale mixed-use buildings has seen the proliferation of atria and sky-courts worldwide due to their ability to simultaneously contribute to aesthetic, socio-cultural, economic and environmental functions.…

Replacing Corridors with Sky-Courts to Create Affordable and Socially Desirable High-Rise Housing
17 Oct 2016 –
Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; Mazlin Ghazali, Arkitek M Ghazali; Tareef Hayat Khan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Studies over the last 60 years have consistently concluded that high-rise housing is less suitable for most people compared to low-rise, especially for children. To overcome the social objections to high-rise housing, a new typology is proposed. In…

Affordable Housing Under Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism
17 Oct 2016 –
Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism; Elena Generalova, Viktor Generalov & Natalia Potienko, Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Rapid urbanization causes major problems of urban sprawl and social stratification, and at the same time it opens up new opportunities of shaping dense vertical urbanism and searching for innovative models of affordable high-rise housing. To improve…

Garden City, Megacity: Rethinking Cities For the Age of Global Warming
17 Oct 2016 –
CTBUH Journal, 2016 Issue IV; Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Alina Yeo, WOHA Architects
The 20th-century city developed in response to industrialization and population growth, with a planning vision encoded in regulations that limited evolving with the times. The 21st century city needs to respond to pressing current issues – climate…